Anapisa monotonia Kiriakoff, 1963 – a junior synonym of Anapisa holobrunnea (Talbot, 1932), with new records of Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) from Ghana
Author
Przybyłowicz, Łukasz
Author
Bąkowski, Marek
text
Zootaxa
2011
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54
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.206669
ecffe773-a087-46b6-a66c-67f020eebd2e
1175-5326
206669
Apisa
(
Parapisa
)
cinereocostata
Holland
, 1893
Apisa cinereocostata
Holland
, 1893
. Psyche 6: 394.
Material examined.
3 Ajenjua Bepo Forest Reserve;
24–30.VIII.2006
(AMU).
Distribution.
New for
Ghana
. Verified data confirm its occurrence in
Gabon
,
Guinea
,
Ivory Coast
and
Nigeria
. It probably has a much wider distribution.
Remarks.
Apisa cinereocostata
is superficially very similar to
A.
(
A.
)
canescens
Walker, 1855
and therefore confused with it for a long time. Only recently the examination of the
type
specimens revealed strong differences in the morphology of the male genitalia. In
A
.
cinereocostata
, the apical part of the uncus is divided in 2 distinct, sharp processes whereas in
A.
(
A.
)
canescens
it is single and narrowed towards the tip. The second representative of the subgenus
Parapisa
,
Apisa subargentea
Joicey and Talbot, 1921
is rather distinct from
A. cinereocostata
both in habitus and in male genitalia (
Przybyłowicz 2009
). It is slightly larger with its forewing uniformly shiny silver and apical processes of uncus widely separated. The female of
A. cinereocostata
remains unknown.